Posted on 23/5/2004, 11:33 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Well, here’s me testing to see if gnome-blog works with WordPress. It seems to, so yay to that. Just remember to set the blog to a self-run other, use the BloggerAPI, use your “xmlrpc.php” file as the URL, enter the username/password, and post away. Only disadvantage seems to be I can’t fiddle with categories here, so everything gets filed as “General”.
Otherwise, titles don’t actually get set so thats definitely a disadvantage. It gets embedded into the post itself. So, WordPress might not be for you Jesse (but I’m sure poking at either gnome-blog or WordPress will fix it eventually).
Posted on 20/5/2004, 3:02 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
FNU #12 covering Fedora Core 2’s release, and some migration topics. Arjan, talks about why ‘sg’ isn’t needed for regular burning/ripping of CDs, while aoliva has some great stuff on Firewire. Fedora Legacy has interesting news of stopping support for RH7.2/8.0, and Fedora works on a Mac (doh!). Excellent public discussion of performance tuning the Fedora Desktop – I wish more posts were like this :)
Playing with GPE a lot. I managed to install Minimo, and that’s a browser that seriously rocks. Next task is to get GAIM going, which seems to be missing some packages. Grr. gpe-irc is just crashing upon input, but I’m sure I’ll win eventually.
Posted on 19/5/2004, 8:03 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Argh! The spatial way hit lwn, and the comments have landed not on any list, but my inbox. nautilus-list is good for this sort of thing – not complaining, but possibly giving new ideas for improvement.
If there are any PC Gemilang users needing to upgrade to FC2 from FC1, there’s a guide: Upgrading your PC Gemilang (Fedora Core 1) to Fedora Core 2, which was a quick walk-thru of the experience. Others might find it useful if you performed ‘everything’ installs.
Evolution is giving me grief. When I right click a message, and select “Copy to Folder”, it comes up with a pop-up. Now, if I hit a key on the keyboard, say ‘t’, it should go to folders with names starting with a ‘t’, like Trash, or tech, or something. It seems to work on a clean FC2 install, but my upgraded FC1->FC2 e-mail box displays this. Is there a workaround?
Posted on 18/5/2004, 12:14 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Don’t know why I’m jumping with joy, but Fedora Core 2 has been released – the release announcement are a must read (very funny, movie like sequence). I’ve got some shots of the FC1 to FC2 upgrade – they’re just anaconda snaps. Release notes too.
Otherwise, of some definite interest would be The Spatial Way, a little guide as to why spatial browsing is nice, with references, and stuff. Decided to do it now, rather than later because of the recent discussions on desktop-devel-list, plus the fact that FC2 is sporting this too… If there are comments on it, please send them my way, I’ll gladly improve it.
Elsewhere, I caught Troy. Bring’s new meaning light to Achilles’ Hell, and the Trojan Horse. Good watch.
Posted on 16/5/2004, 9:10 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Some mirror must always open up early right, and our favourite /. writes stories in the stuff-to-snag department. I find it funny that we now even have a warez location dedicated to Fedora – I mean, warez of open source software.
In other news, I’m glad I went with WordPress, as Mark Pilgrim puts it very nicely in his Freedom 0 piece. Looks like now we’ll get sweet WordPress hacks, for instance, advogato posting.
Posted on 10/5/2004, 10:25 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Novell is in a rapid Linux channels drive, where becoming a certified engineer is now a very official thing. The article does show some insight as to where they’re trying to make inroads, so much so a fairly reputable company, ByteCraft advances with Linux (basically, new carriers of Novell/SuSe solutions).
Everyone’s Linux, while a company based in India, is funded by MAVCAP, so there’s plenty of Malaysian interest there. Local company, Kitech has a support site even. Its definitely a Red Hat based distribution, probably RH8/9 styled.
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004: Malaysia is on as well. Some of the tracks look interesting, and from reports, it’s been very largely focused on Linux in the enterprise. IBM and Novell are the main contenders, a missing RH, even though focus is on enterprises.
When will a bunch of Malaysian students start an Ignalum? I’m all ears, so do use the comment form or write me some e-mail.
